Sistani's critics want greater activism in Iraqi politics - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Ali Mamouri

Feb 20, 2014

An Iraqi man holds a picture of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani at a campaign rally for Ammar al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), which is part of the broad Shiite coalition the Iraqi National Alliance, in Baghdad March 5, 2010. Politicians launched into their last day of campaigning as more than a million Iraqis living abroad began voting in an election that could turn the page on years of deadly sectarian strife. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit sho — An Iraqi man holds a picture of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani at a campaign rally in Baghdad for Ammar al-Hakim, March 5, 2010. — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images

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